Communication apparatus, control method, and computer-readable storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHideaki Tachibana
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Abstract
A communication apparatus participates in a network that mutually connects base stations that provide a communication service to a terminal, determines, in accordance with whether the apparatus can be connected to a public network in the network without via another apparatus, whether the apparatus operates as a role of a controller that controls the network or as a role of an agent that is managed by another apparatus that operates as the controller, and operates as a function corresponding to the determination.
Claims18
A communication apparatus comprising:
- a participation unit configured to participate in a network that mutually connects base stations that provide a communication service to a terminal;
- a determination unit configured to determine, in accordance with whether the apparatus can be connected to a public network in the network without via another apparatus, whether the apparatus operates as a role of a controller that controls the network or as a role of an agent that is managed by another apparatus that operates as the controller;
- and
- an operation unit configured to operate as a function corresponding to determination made by the determination unit.
A control method executed by a communication apparatus, the method comprising:
- participating in a network that mutually connects base stations that provide a communication service to a terminal;
- determining, in accordance with whether the apparatus can be connected to a public network in the network without via another apparatus, whether the apparatus operates as a role of a controller that controls the network or as a role of an agent that is managed by another apparatus that operates as the controller;
- and
- operating as a function corresponding to the determining.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores a program for causing a computer included in a communication apparatus to:
- participate in a network that mutually connects base stations that provide a communication service to a terminal;
- determine, in accordance with whether the apparatus can be connected to a public network in the network without via another apparatus, whether the apparatus operates as a role of a controller that controls the network or as a role of an agent that is managed by another apparatus that operates as the controller;
- and
- operate as a function corresponding to the determination.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.